Traditional Chinese Medicine Traditional Chinese Medicine has a history of a few thousand years and has been the cornerstone in curing diseases and maintaining health and well-being of the Chinese people. It is based on a holistic approach in the management of an imbalanced condition, where physical signs and symptoms, emotional reactions, social and environmental factors as well as all parts of the human body, etc. are considered interdependent and mutually interactive. For example, emotional disorders may injure the internal organs while dysfunction of internal organs may lead to the disturbance of emotions. Observation, questioning, hearing, smelling, tongue reading, palpation and pulse reading are techniques commonly used in diagnosis in.